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The 6-Point Divisor Plan is an Australian horse racing staking plan from 1989, and the thing that keeps it survivable is not the arithmetic — it is the safety brake. You run into four losers in a r...

Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finished a long way in front. Writing in Practical Puntin...

In Australian horse racing, 99 per cent of punters fail to make money over a 12-month period — and exotic betting is where they lose fastest. Don Scott, a professional punter who spent the sixties ...

There is no short cut in Australian horse racing, and Don Scott is the proof: he worked 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a week, at form study. Practical Punting's Brian Blackwell interviewed him i...

In Australian horse racing, most punters bet with bookmakers all their lives without ever learning how a bookie makes his book, and it is hard to beat a man at a job you cannot describe. Statsman, ...

In Australian horse racing, backing three horses in a race dramatically shortens the odds you are really betting — the board price is not your price. Philip Roy answered a reader who wanted to d...

Leon's dilemma...Trainer Leon Corstens is still weighing his autumn options for Starspangledbanner. It's a toss-up between the Grp 1 duo Lightning Stakes and Oakleigh Plate as first-up races for th...

Clarry Conners won't have the opportunity to add a fifth Golden Slipper trophy to his collection this year and is pinning his autumn Group One hopes on Satin Shoes.The filly has been entered for th...

Promising filly Tariana could be a surprise starter in Adelaide's Listed Proud Miss Stakes, leaving trainer Mick Price without a runner at Flemington this weekend.Price has nominated the three-year...

A decision on whether Combat Kitty has her first test at 1600 metres in the Sandown Guineas will be made after trainer Matt Smith supervises her work on Tuesday.The filly has also been entered for ...

What's coming up for Scenic Blast after Newmarket? Trainer Dan Morton is weighing up his options in Japan, Australia and Hong Kong for after Scenic Blast's run in the Darley July Cup at Newmarket n...

Kris Lees is very keen on the future prospects of his Rosehill plunge winner Elimbari. He says: ''The second best two-year-old I've had, put it that way...' He was, of course, putting Samantha Miss...